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Originally posted by Z-man
Boy, what have I started here?
My point bringing up the 9/11 attack is this: it seems that there was a different attitude. People were scared, saddened, worried: looting wasn't on their list of things to do.
Granted, the two disasters are vastly apart in magnitude, cause, and effects. But where we heard stories of helping hands on 9-11 and no violence, we are hearing more and more stories of looting hands and violence coming out of NO.
-Z.
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Tell you what. Imagine if you can that we had days of warning before 9/11; that the area affected was completely cut off from the unaffected areas, and for three days, area residents who were left behind (homeless and others who didn't 'get the word') had no indication of rescue or reliable source of food/water.
It's not just magnitude, cause and effect, it's also location, nature of population, etc.
I find it interesting some of the same people who decry the negative stories coming out of Iraq as unbalanced are readily embracing and embellishing stories of looting & shooting. I wonder what we'll find when the official report is done. How many shots were fired at authorities, etc.